Queensland Country Hour

Country Hour for Wednesday 27 August, 2014

Posted
August 27, 2014 15:16:39

The rabies-like virus Lyssa has been confirmed for the first time in Horses. Two horses in south east Queensland died last year with subsequent testing proving it was Lyssavirus - contracted through bats. A Central Queensland grazier is campaigning to have road trains allowed to travel through Rockhampton. Currently, road trains stop at Gracemere and only B-doubles continue into Rockhampton to the meatworks. In the state's far north, there's concern about trucks, too, but this issue involves residents fighting against B-double trucks carrying large volumes of sugar cane from the Atherton Tableland to the coast. Millions of dollars in funding for rural roads could start to flow with the Senate likely to pass the Government's Land Transport Infrastructure Amendment Bill. The Bill includes $350 million in Roads to Recovery funding - to help councils pay for road works. Children in far north Queensland have been challenged to consider what it would be like to be a farmer - and then write and illustrate their own book about it.